Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

water supply is gettin low. Connersville is threatened with au epidemic of scarlet fever. The poor children of Jeffersonville are to have free rides on the ferries. The business men of Elkhart are now working hard to secure waterworks. ! A Richmond florist has lately shipped a consignment of roses to Jamaica. Parties boring for coal on tbe line of the Indianapolis & Evansville railroad near Hosmer,struck a 5J footvein,sixty teet from the surface. r At Greenwood, liid., a widow who keeps a toll-house shot a burglar and killed him. The neighbors are about to raise a subscription for her. Highwaymen attacked Henry West at New. Albany,Baturday night,knocked him insensible, and beat him cruelly. They got but five cents. Thev escaped. Dr. Wm. H. Leramling, of Slash, thirteen miles southwest of Marion, dosed himself heavily with chloral Friday night and died next day. He had been on a spree for several weeks. Shelby county fishermen are much incensed over the recent importation into that county of dynamite torpedoes which “pot hunters” are using with fearful effect in all of the larger streams.

Barney Fuchtman, who lives northeast of New Point was gored by a bull which will result in his death. The horn went in just below the heart, and passed to the right lung and his intestines diopped out. During a recent thunder storm, Mrs Voight, of New Albany, had all the hair burned from the top of her head by a flash of lightning. She was so shocked as to be confined to her bed for several days.. As the little three-year-old sou >f W. B. Aritton, of Livonia, was playing with some neighbor children, they tipped over an old fashioned cornercupboard, and crushed the little fellow so badly lhat he soon expired. George Asire, a steam-fitter in the Studebaker shops, at South Bend, was was poisoned by some one putting arsenic in the food in his dinner-pail. The doctors took hold of his case in time to save him, but had hard work to do so. William Mount, an old citizen of Crawlordsville, fell dead from a box in front of Joel’s clothing store Monday morning. He was eighty-three years old, and had been a resident of Montgomery cpunty since 1824. He left his wife property to the value df $150,000. Mr. Valentine, of Franoisville, eech year employs several men in shooting birds, and by a process of freezing, keeps his game In good condition until seen time as there is a good demand for it. This spriog he estimates he had 18,000 birds in his re'riger&tor, and it is only a short time since he shipped them.

In transferring the baggage at the burned bridge on the 1., P. <fc C. rail road near Webber's station, an alligator seventeen feet in length, belonging to Rhen’s circus, got away, and at last accounts had not been captured. The animal is valued at $285. The country people are already commencing to emigrate from that section. A little child of Mr. Davis Meyers, living south of Vedersburg, was bitten Wednesday bv.a rattlesnake while playing in the yard. It died Thursday morning after suffering great agony, the limb which was bitten having swollen to several times its natural size. This is the second child Mr. Meyen has lost in the last few days by snake bite. A quarry of the finest magnesia limestone has been discovered on the term of Dr, W. W. Tucker, at George-

1«»wb, Fjoya county, situated onefonrth of a mile from the Air-Liie railroad. The stone taken out is pronounced superior to that of the famous Bedford quarries. Dr. Tucker has been offered a large sum for his farm in consequence of the discovery. Twenty years sgo-tbe body ofLavina Harvey was buried in the northern cemetery at New Albany. After severs! years the body was exhumed for some purpose, and was found to be perfectly petrified. A few days ago it was found that the body had been taken out of its coffin, and it is believed to have been “resurrected” by some showman. An investigation is in' progress.

Jack Minton was shot and instantly killed Saturday night by Eliza Athie, of Greensburg. Minton and three others went to the disreputable house occupied by Mary and Eliza Athie,and attempting to force an entrance, were met at the door and Minton shot through the neck with a Colt’s army pistol. The shooting is considered justifiable* The sixth annual convention of tbe Christian Temperance Union wiU be held in Lafayette, September 10. Excursion rates may be had over all principal railroads. There will be a free entertainment for as many dele-, gates as can be accomodated in private families, and hotel entertainment at reduced rates. The convention will be held each evening of the con ven lion and Sunday afternoon and eroding following the convention.

The Corydon Democrat has a description of a snake killed on a farm of D. W. Creceiius, in Harrison county, which was three reet four inches in length, and about two and a half inches thick. Its belly was a golden yellow, and its head* were the same color. Its body was a beautiful brown, dappled with gold colored spots or specks,with about sixteen yellow stripes across its back. But what is the most remarkable is, tbe snake had two heads, one at each end, and teeth about a half an inch in length. The wife of George Avery, of Greenville, Floyd county, nearly severed her head with a razor Tuesday night, because the gossips of the place made two free with her reputation. She leaves a husband and two small children. Mrs. Avery’s father died on the voyage to America j and was buried in the ocean. He left a wife aud herself-t----she then being a small girl. They came from New Orleans to this city on a steamboat, and as the boat touched the wharf the mother seized her daughter and sprang overboard into the river. She was drowned, but the child was saved to meet death by her own hands.